Writing, Publishing, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, Political Science, Women’s Studies, Correspondence, Letters

A letter from Margaret Walker to Ms. Dottie Abbot of the Center for Southern Culture at the University of Ole Miss. Margaret Walker is writing to inform Ms. Abbot that she does not want two have two editors for the book she is working on.

Writing, Poetry, Publishing, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, Letters, Correspondence, “Lineage,” Mississippi Writers: Reflections on Childhood and Youth, University Press of Mississippi.

Agreement form to grant permission to publish Margaret Walker’s poem “Lineage” in Mississippi Writers: Reflections on Childhood and Youth, to be published by The University Press of Mississippi under the sponsorship of the Center for the...

Writing, Poetry, Publishing, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, Letters, Correspondence, “Childhood,” Mississippi Writers: Reflections on Childhood and Youth, University Press of Mississippi.

Agreement form to grant permission to publish Margaret Walker’s poem “Childhood” in Mississippi Writers: Reflections on Childhood and Youth, to be published by The University Press of Mississippi under the sponsorship of the Center for the...

Writing, Poetry, Publishing, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, Letters, Correspondence, “Molly Means,” Mississippi Writers: Reflections on Childhood and Youth, University Press of Mississippi.

Agreement form to grant permission to publish Margaret Walker’s poem “Molly Means” in Mississippi Writers: Reflections on Childhood and Youth, to be published by The University Press of Mississippi under the sponsorship of the Center for the...

Writing, Poetry, Publishing, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, Letters, Correspondence, “Growing Out of Shadow,” Mississippi Writers: Reflections on Childhood and Youth, University Press of Mississippi.

Agreement form to grant permission to publish Margaret Walker’s poem “Growing Out of Shadow” in Mississippi Writers: Reflections on Childhood and Youth, to be published by The University Press of Mississippi under the sponsorship of the...

Writing, Publishing, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, Letters, Correspondence, “Growing Out of Shadow,” Mississippi Writers: Reflections on Childhood and Youth, University Press of Mississippi.

Agreement form to grant permission to publish Margaret Walker’s “Growing Out of Shadow” in Mississippi Writers: Reflections on Childhood and Youth, to be published by The University Press of Mississippi under the sponsorship of the Center for...

Writing, Publishing, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, Letters, Correspondence, “Address to ‘Mississippi and the Nation in the 1980s,’” Mississippi Writers: Reflections on Childhood and Youth, University...

Agreement form to grant permission to publish Margaret Walker’s “Address to ‘Mississippi and the Nation in the 1980s’” in Mississippi Writers: Reflections on Childhood and Youth, to be published by The University Press of Mississippi...

Correspondence, Letters, University of Mississippi, Center for Southern Culture

A letter from Margaret Walker to Dr. William Ferris of the Center for Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. She is writing to tell Dr. Ferris that she is not interested in doing a proposed conference.

Margaret Walker writes about her new novel. She writes that her first task is to find an effective way to re-create, in her story, the realities of the Mississippi Delta such as poverty, segregation, and racism.

Margaret Walker writes that her second major task is to effectively write about the techniques of revolution. She also writes that her main problem will be to transform her thoughts into an enjoyable, fictional form for the telling of her story.

Journal 71 covers the period from February to April 1964. Margaret Walker has made changes in her name; she is now Margaret Walker Alexander. She searches her soul to develop solutions for many difficult situations and reflects upon herself to...

Journal 72 covers the period of April to September 1964. Margaret Walker begins the journal with a prayer to God and asks for His protection over her family. She plans to have her family united in one place by the summer. She writes her poem,...